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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I am excited to announce the release of <b>PupilEXT</b>, a cross-platform (Mac, Win, Linux) open-source <b>pupillometry</b> framework suited for high-resolution pupil
diameter measurements with machine vision cameras in real-time.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A detailed manual on how to set up the system is available at the project’s GitHub repository:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0cm"><span class="s1"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#DCA10D"><a href="https://github.com/openPupil/Open-PupilEXT">https://github.com/openPupil/Open-PupilEXT</a></span></u></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The paper about the proposed pupillometry system is available here:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="p3" style="margin:0cm"><span class="s2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.676220/full">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.676220/full</a></span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Furthermore, we provide video tutorials that walk through the interface of
<b>PupilEXT</b>:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tutorial 1/3 (Stereo camera recording):<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span></span><span class="s1"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#DCA10D"><a href="https://vimeo.com/564556788">https://vimeo.com/564556788</a></span></u></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tutorial 2/3 (Single camera recording):<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span></span><span class="s1"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#DCA10D"><a href="https://vimeo.com/564776313">https://vimeo.com/564776313</a></span></u></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tutorial 3/3 (External image analysis):<span class="apple-converted-space">
</span></span><span class="s1"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#DCA10D"><a href="https://vimeo.com/564778587">https://vimeo.com/564778587</a></span></u></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">PupilEXT</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> features a selection of six state-of-the-art open-source pupil detection algorithms, a measurement
accuracy validation pipeline, stereo (mono) camera calibration, offline pupillometry, all combined in a single framework.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Babak Zandi,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">on behalf of the whole team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Technical University of Darmstadt</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Laboratory of Lighting Technology </span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Hochschulstr. 4a, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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